Graham Rickson reviews Smaro Gregoriadou’s latest release, “A Healing Fire”, for The Arts Desk: “One interesting aspect of Greek guitarist Smaro Greoriadou’s playing is her willingness to experiment technically, the tunings and instruments chosen to suit the musical requirements of each work. … Her choice pays off… There’s an intensity and tautness to the sound which heightens…
Limelight Magazine gives ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to the Latvian Radio Choir and Sigvards Klava’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy: “Originally conceived for male chorus, the Divine Liturgy has been effectively adapted for mixed chorus by the Armenian composer, Vache Sharafyan, giving this already fascinating work an added radiance. Customarily superb singing by the Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards…
The Whole Note Magazine’s October issue features a wonderful new review for the Latvian Radio Choir and Sigvards Klava’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy: “The profound music of Divine Liturgy is a historic recording… arranger Vache Sharafyan has made a boldly presumptuous leap of faith and illuminates Komitas’ deeply meditative sound-mass textures, choosing to mix the…
The September/October issue of Fanfare includes a thoughtful review of The Cave of Wondrous Voice by Santa Fe writer Huntley Dent: “Abel’s opening work (depicts) the restless operation of intuition, which keeps turning back on itself to find fresh ways of saying things. His intuition darts from gesture to gesture very quickly, and the piece is finely…
“Wait for me, And I’ll be back. But please, just wait.” One evening in the summer of 2001, Delos founder Amelia Haygood and I were relaxing with Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Constantine Orbelian in a Moscow restaurant after a recording session for Dmitri’s Verdi Arias album (DE 3292). Dmitri and Constantine began describing some of their favorite…
Remy Franck gives a ♪♪♪♪♪ rating to Smaro Gregoriadou’s new recording, A Healing Fire, on his Pizzicato journal: “The Greek guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou is known for her constant experimentation with the guitar sound. On this CD, you can experience this once again. … excellent phrasing and dynamic playing. … Gubaidulina’s expressive Serenade leads to the…
Gramophone Magazine’s 2020 Awards Issue reviews the Latvian Radio Choir’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy: “The importance in Armenian culture of Komitas, priest-monk, composer, arranger, transcriber, conductor, can hardly be overestimated. … his transcriptions of western Armenian folk music effectively saved the tradition from extinction. … The Divine Liturgy was first published in 1933…
Available Today As the innovative, world-renowned guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou says in her notes for this stunning new recording, her fourth for Delos, its music offers “encouragement and hope,” and illuminates with “a different kind of light, a different sort of fire.” The program begins with her beautiful transcription of Bach’s beloved Solo Violin Sonata #2 and offers…
Gramophone Magazine reviews Jonah Kim and Sean Kennard’s Rachmaninoff & Barber Cello Sonatas recording in the 2020 Awards Issue: “These are works of young firebrands, full of emotional urgency and heightened instrumental challenges, which are met to striking effect in the performances offered on this new recording by the cellist Jonah Kim and pianist Sean…
Opera News names Isabel Bayrakdarian, Jory Vinikour, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s The OTHER Cleopatra recording, a Critic’s Choice! “The soprano’s musical intelligence, along with her rich sound, impressive range and sensitivity to text are solidly at home in the Italian eighteenth century, so these excerpts from settings by Vivaldi (1724), Hasse (1729)…
Get it today! The wonderful Conspirare chamber choir, known for its interpretive depth and otherworldly sonic lushness, offers another of its captivating programs—this time joined by three superb guitar quartets—in a program remarkably relevant to our time. Conspirare’s 2019 Delos album, The Hope of Loving (DE 3578), was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance in 2020. The concert…
Available Today! Virtuoso trumpeter Andrew Balio’s superlative transcriptions of music by J.S. Bach delight the listener with both new and familiar sounds. Bach affirmed that “the aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” At the end of his compositions he…
The New York Times has a new series featuring artists and critics at large sharing their favorite recordings “That Will Make You Love the Violin” — and include two recent Delos recordings in their “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin” playlist on Spotify. “Jörg Widmanns’s book of 24 duos for violin and…
The Whole Note declares Mark Abel “a compositional master” after reviewing his new album of chamber music: The Cave of Wondrous Voice. “Abel is renowned for his vocal works. His exciting song cycle Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva features four Russian poems translated to English for the first time by Alyssa Dinega Gilliespie. Soprano Hila Plitmann sings…
MusicWeb International gives their “Recommended” status to the Latvian Radio Choir’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy: “The Latvian Radio Choir, a professional body of around 25 singers, have exceptional skills.… there is a clarity to their expression. Hovhannes Badalyan, who sings the parts allocated to the priest, is himself a priest of the Armenian…
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